<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Pancho Sanza:
"The line doesn't mean shit. The line is only a factor about 17% of the time. Getting the BEST line might give you an extra 1.5 to 2% edge, but only if you bet every game."
What an ignorant statement. Getting 3.5 when the world is 3 is more than 1-2% extra.
Please stick to sclaping.
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Only IF you got it every game. And even then it is only about 9.5%. Since 1992 there have been 487 games that closed at -3. Of those 487 games 46 landed right on 3. So those 46 pushes would have been wins.
But then again that is make believe, but still it is best case scenario. You can't make more winners if they aren't there.
I have break downs for every line posted, and where it closed, and how it did ATS. Trust me, getting the best line doesn't make that much of a difference. Because it is still the same guy, and knowing when to bet to get that very best line still entails some ability. That is why doing make belive doesn't really work. It can only give you a read on what is the very best one could expect, and ecven at the very best, it isn't that big an advantage. If everyone has -3, and you could get a Pk, if they lose straight up that line didn't help a bit. I have all that shit written down,so I know. It isn't that big a deal.
It isn't like baseball where EVERY penny is an advantage when you win, for the most part a half point isn't going to mean much. As mentioned above it means something about 9.5% of the time in that scenario, in baseball it manes something 100% of the time.
So lines in baseball are infinately more important than they are in football.